Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nissen Patent Law operates in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm has managed 177 career applications and currently oversees 3 pending office actions. These figures indicate the firm's historical experience and its current level of engagement with the USPTO. This data provides a baseline for understanding the firm's presence in this sector.
The firm's resolved allowance rate is 89.06. On average, the firm receives 3.26 office actions per allowance. Practitioners can use this average to estimate the frequency of examiner interactions required to reach a grant for applications in this portfolio. These metrics offer an overview of the firm's prosecution results.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| REAGAN, JAMES A | 1 | 71.4% | +19.9% |
| SCHNEIDER, CRAIG M | 1 | 60.4% | +33.1% |
| KUMAR, RAKESH | 1 | 57.2% | +28.2% |
| MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| DONG, LIANG | 1 | 53.2% | +32.9% |
| LUSK, AUDREY L | 1 | 68.7% | +24.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18675069 | Nanostructured high-performance thin film composite reverse osmosis membranes and methods of manufacture | MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18639774 | ARTICULATING PAPER DISPENSER AND RELATED METHODS OF USE AND INSTALLATION | DONG, LIANG | 45d overdue |
| 18957422 | PORTABLE PIPE-THAWING DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | SCHNEIDER, CRAIG M | — |
| 18369840 | THREE-POINT HITCH ADAPTERS, ATTACHMENTS, BALE WRAP ROLLING ASSEMBLIES, AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | LUSK, AUDREY L | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18639774 | ARTICULATING PAPER DISPENSER AND RELATED METHODS OF USE AND INSTALLATION | DONG, LIANG | 45d overdue |
| 19353025 | BLOCKCHAIN MINE AT OIL OR GAS FACILITY | REAGAN, JAMES A | — |
| 18957422 | PORTABLE PIPE-THAWING DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | SCHNEIDER, CRAIG M | — |
| 18927643 | MEDICAL CARTRIDGE DISPENSERS, AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | KUMAR, RAKESH | — |
| 18369840 | THREE-POINT HITCH ADAPTERS, ATTACHMENTS, BALE WRAP ROLLING ASSEMBLIES, AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | LUSK, AUDREY L | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| 1360625 B.C. LTD. | 2 |
| Upstream Data Inc. | 1 |
| 2662944 Alberta Ltd. | 1 |
| Greenvi Corp. | 1 |
| Gecco Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3697 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19353025 | BLOCKCHAIN MINE AT OIL OR GAS FACILITY | Upstream Data Inc. | REAGAN, JAMES A | 3697 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 18957422 | PORTABLE PIPE-THAWING DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | 2662944 Alberta Ltd. | SCHNEIDER, CRAIG M | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18927643 | MEDICAL CARTRIDGE DISPENSERS, AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | 1360625 B.C. Ltd. | KUMAR, RAKESH | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 | |
| 18675069 | Nanostructured high-performance thin film composite reverse osmosis membranes and methods of manufacture | Greenvi Corp. | MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2024 | |
| 18639774 | ARTICULATING PAPER DISPENSER AND RELATED METHODS OF USE AND INSTALLATION | 1360625 B.C. Ltd. | DONG, LIANG | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18369840 | THREE-POINT HITCH ADAPTERS, ATTACHMENTS, BALE WRAP ROLLING ASSEMBLIES, AND RELATED METHODS OF USE | Gecco Inc. | LUSK, AUDREY L | 3671 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
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